Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.0-test6 | Date | 6 Oct 2003 03:05:14 GMT |
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In article <ddcbaa61f5ab6ec90c71a70bb3990b49@stdbev.com>, Jason Munro <jason@stdbev.com> wrote: | On October 2, 7:07 pm Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote: | > | > Pedro Larroy wrote: | > | > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:05:36PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: | > > I'm afraid this selection criteria leads to a scheduler that isn't | > > predictable for situations that aren't the ones for which is tuned to | > > work. Of course I may be wrong, but to me, seems that saying | > > explicitly which tasks are interactive sounds better. | > > | > | > Have a look at my scheduler if you like. It won't estimate interactivity | > but it works quite well if you nice -10 your X server. Ie. explicitly | > state which process should be favoured. | > http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v15a/ | | I don't know much about kernel internals but of the 2.5 and 2.6 kernels I | have tried, 2.6.0-test6 is by far the best on the desktop for my use (xmms, | vmware, firebird, loads of other apps). With this patch it's better still. | Before patching simple things like ls or ps have an annoying slowness while | under a moderate/heavy load. For the most part things are fine but after | patching commands respond more quickly. This is the first time for me a | 2.5+ kernel has been responsive enough to use on a daily basis.
I would like to add my thoughts that test6-np15a is the winner for the things I do. I can live with a sound skip (I haven't seen any, but it's not my test app), I really want my typing to echo, to click on a header in Kmail and see the text, to have ls works, etc. Nick has given me that far more than test6 plain or with -mm flavor. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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